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nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
OFTC is run by the OFTC board (of which tomaw is a member) on behalf of Software in the Public Interest, who originally organized it for Debian.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Although we do not yet support recording the copyright lines in the package metadata, SPDX labels are used to provide linked data references to the license text. Copyright metadata itself will be included in apk3.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If all goes to plan it will be part of Alpine 3.15 as a release variant.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
There is supervise-daemon(8) for this.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
We are actually in the design phase for a declarative variant of Alpine using OSTree.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
With musl we discovered that qemu does not always properly initialize structures when doing the syscall translation. Most likely this is a missing initialization.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
TCG's uops are modelled after real ones. It is close enough.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The real takeaway from this is if you want to work on FOSS on your own time, without retribution from your manager, don't work at IBM.

As IBM is supposed to be a huge supporter of FOSS, this is a total disappointment.
nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's not just about adding new architectures to LLVM and rustc, it's also about bootstrapping supported architectures on all architectures supported by a distribution.

This isn't fully done in Alpine yet, and took a long time to do in Debian.
nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
George Varghese's Network Algorithmics is a good book for backend-oriented people to learn various fundamental CS algorithms.

It presents various CS topics from the perspective of backend optimization, so it's a good book for approaching theoretical CS from a background you already probably understand.

But, ultimately, the best asset for somebody with a CS background is not so much having immediate knowledge, but knowing where to acquire knowledge as necessary. If you have a general idea that for a specific scenario, you can acquire X knowledge in Y resource as you go along, then you're already doing quite well.
nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Trademark disputes are best solved with litigation, not product relicensing.
nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Amazon's behavior may feel exploitative, but it isn't. That would be like saying Red Hat is exploitative.

Part of the whole concept of free software is that you have freedom of choice with vendors (this is derived from "freedom 0"). Amazon is providing the software and its support as part of the Elasticsearch offering as a managed service. Elastic is a competing vendor, both as a managed service and in a traditional sense too.

Elastic made this decision because they wanted to be the exclusive vendor for Elasticsearch. That's fine, but it's not in the spirit of free software.

If anything, Elastic has exploited the third-party contributors who contributed to Elasticsearch under a CLA by promising to not do what they did and then blaming AWS for doing it anyway.
nenolod
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
They share a similarity: the Floragunn litigation is unresolved (and clearly Floragunn continues to distribute their plugin). SCO, too, failed to resolve their litigation favorably to SCO.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Yeah? SCO sued a bunch of people too. They haven't won, though.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Incidentally, the fact that it is OK to use Apache-2 licensed components inside projects licensed as SSPL is probably a net negative for free software moving forward as there will be more of these companies which do this in the future. It doesn't end with Elastic.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I read that article and it is very redolent of what SCO argued back in the day. If they had actual proof, they would take legal action against the author of that plugin.
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·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Amazon contributed code to Elasticsearch. They are certainly allowed to profit from their code contributions.
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·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That activity is being driven in musl directly. 1.2 has introduced optimizations for arm, aarch64, x86 and x86_64. there's more to optimize, but some are already there.
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·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The good news is that there is work in progress to untangle the mess with PyPI wheels and musl. But it is easy enough to just not use wheels.
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·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If you don't mind using IRC, there's a lot of people willing to help you get started with this adventure in #alpine-devel on freenode.